Sinn Fein Newswire (Page 13)

The Seanad descended into chaos yesterday when a Sinn Fein senator accused his senate colleagues of being drunk during last week's late night debate on water charges. The accusation comes as new figures reveal spending in the Dail's two bars increased by 30pc on the day the Government debated legislation relating to next year's Budget.
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SINN Fein MLA Mickey Brady has said that there is a strong feeling within the local Ballybot community about the campaign to have the Raymond McCreesh Play Park renamed. The MLA was speaking after he submitted over 1000 signed letters supporting the name of Raymond McCreesh Park into Newry and Mourne District Council.
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... a flurry of activity this year, with a series of arrests, the most high-profile being the four-day detention of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. She became one of the "Disappeared" victims of the Troubles until a heavy storm revealed her burial ...
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... to meet the standards required for top European matches, has become a political football between the SDLP and Sinn Fein. In response to the question on whether a design team had been appointed, Ms Ni Chuilin suggested that he needs to direct his ...
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... massage with Scarlett Johannsen as well. If none of that works we'll just say - quick look at what Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein are doing over there! Then I'll tickle Micheal Martin in his special place and before you know it - FF and FG shacked up ...
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... facing Stormont, particularly the non-implementation of welfare reforms - something which had been blocked by Sinn Fein, and has led to penalties being levied against Northern Ireland. On Friday, reports emerged that Sinn Fein had finally softened ...
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... are due to resume at Stormont House tomorrow morning. On Friday the five parties (the DUP, the Ulster Unionists, Sinn Fein, the SDLP and Alliance) achieved what Charlie Flanagan described as a significant breakthrough, when, for the first time, they ...
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I have been to a few year end review panels over the past month and one thing that I have heard repeated time and again is that Sinn Fein have had a good year. Think about this for a moment, the party President was questioned by the PSNI and there were two very difficult Spotlight programmes for the party to face and the end result is, they are up nearly 4% on average than they were last year.
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... 14pc said "it depends", while 10pc said they "don't know". Those opposed to paying the charges are highest among Sinn Fein voters (55pc) and supporters of Independents (34pc). They are also more likely to be aged between 45 and 54 and be living in ...
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... the Kennys, and Labour - have done little for the working poor outside of ongoing attempts to reform them. As for Sinn Fein, while breakfast-roll man will threaten to vote for them, in his heart he knows SF are the party of the welfare classes. ...
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Sinn Fein has been hurt badly by Mairia Cahill's revelations, whether it's ready to face the truth or not The revelations made by Mairia Cahill are seen to have done considerable damage to the reputation of Sinn Fein and some of its leading members, according to our Sunday Independent/Millward Brown opinion poll If there's one thing politicians of all ideological slants share in common, it's a talent for instant amnesia. They can forget what they said and did last week in order to say something entirely different this one.
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Two months after the revelations, the poll shows that voters have developed deep concerns about the party's truthfulness and refusal to accept its accountability to the Irish public. Yesterday, the Ceann Comhairle, Sean Barrett, accused Sinn Fein of using him as a "pawn to deflect attention" from issues such as the Mairia Cahill affair.
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... and other public expenditure issues it hardly came as a surprise that most local politicians - and not only Sinn Fein - at first adopted the line that whatever they are we're against them. After a major shift of the UK government's approach to ...
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... in Ireland for the island nation in its 54 year defiance of the blockade and the deprivation it helped to cause. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams welcomed the historic agreement to begin dismantling the trade embargo, reportedly brokered by Pope ...
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... Hall, was expected to include the official title 'Mayor of Derry Kevin Campbell'. This was in reference to the Sinn Fein Councillor for Creggan who held the post at the time of the unveiling in June 2013. But DUP Councillor Drew Thompson had ...
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The DUP and Sinn Fein said no deadline had been set but a solution would require hard work from all parties. "If we can't get agreement, particularly on the public finances, I think we have a real problem here," the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson said.
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... were "intolerable" and that he had been briefed on the situation by Ministers Leo Varadkar and Kathleen Lynch. Sinn Fein's Caoimhghin O Caolain raised the issue in parliament. He said it was unacceptable that "our voiceless in care" depend on ...
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The Dublin parliament has become the latest in Europe to call on its governments to recognise an independent state of Palestine after a motion by Sinn Fein was passed unanimously. In response, the Israeli foreign ministry accused the parliament of giving voice to "statements of hatred and antisemitism directed at Israel in a way which we have not heard before".
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... provoke trouble. Some were filmed assaulting protestors at a city centre demonstration late on Wednesday evening. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams described the turnout at the rally as "real democracy". "Nobody ever gave anybody rights, you have to take ...
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... and allowed for a billion pounds worth of loans which Stormont could repay (with interest) over a 25-year period. Sinn Fein described the offer as "derisory". Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said there was "no credible financial package on ...
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